Thinh Doan, an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) and member of the Center for Autonomy, has been honored with the 2025 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. The award, established in 2005, is given annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems Society (CSS) to “recognize outstanding achievement in research in systems and control by a young researcher and to honor the memory of Dr. Antonio Ruberti.”
Doan, who joined UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering in 2024, specializes in advancing control and learning algorithms that enable a team of robots, such as UAVs or ground vehicles, to help humans perform complex tasks. He leads the Control, Optimization and Online Learning for Autonomy (COOL) lab in the ASE/EM department.